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Announcing Winners and Finalists for the 2025 Editor’s Prizes

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We are thrilled to announce the winners and finalists for our 2025 Editor’s Prizes in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry! Winners receive publication and a thousand dollars each. Winning work will appear in THE FLORIDA REVIEW Vol. 49, No. 2, Spring 2026, on sale in March, 2026. All contest entrants receive a year’s subscription to the magazine.

2025 Editor’s Award for Fiction
WINNER:
Sharon Wahl: “Driving Lessons”
Sharon Wahl’s collection Everything Flirts: Philosophical Romances (Iowa, 2024) won the John Simmons Short Fiction Award and was longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her writing has appeared in publications including Harper’s, the Chicago Tribune, The Iowa Review, Harvard Review, and Wigleaf. She’s online at www.sharonwahl.com.

FINALISTS:
Lara Palmqvist: “Bountiful”
Baird Harper: “Wreck of the Triumph”
Alan Sincic: “The Word”
Eric Rasmussen: “Warmer”
Sharon Solwitz: “Sex and History”
Katherine Cart: “Between the Floods”
Taylor Brown: “The Ghostbird”
Jake Winn: “The Last Resort”

2025 Editor’s Award for Creative Nonfiction
WINNER:
Sheree Chua: “Oralities: Sea, Salt and Bone”
Sheree Chua is an observer and occasional collaborator with the communities and tribes of the Philippine South, where she learns through shared stories and silences. She believes in listening as a form of care, and in the quiet strength of slow work.

FINALISTS:
Giovanni Wolfram: “Father Poem”
Rachel Rothenberg: “Variations on the Bodies Beneath our Feet”
Gustavo Pérez Firmat: “Car Trouble”
Heather Sellers: “We Are Never, Ever Getting Back to Normal”
Julie Marie Wade: “Kith, in the Aftermath”

2025 Editor’s Award for Poetry
WINNER:
Samuel Piccone: “Black Thumb”
Samuel Piccone is the author of the chapbook Pupa (Anhinga Press, 2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including Sycamore Review, Frontier Poetry, Washington Square Review, and RHINO. He serves as poetry editor at Raleigh Review, and is an assistant professor at Iowa State University.

FINALISTS:
“Ornament,” by Amy Raasch
“Twelve Songs of a Rural Queer,” by Cecilia Morris
“Pandemic Pantoum,” by Lauren Eggert-Crowe

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2025 Editor’s Prizes Open for Submission!

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Submissions for our annual Editor’s Prizes in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry are open from now until April 15th! Each winner receives publication in The Florida Review and $1,000 upon publication. Entry fee of $25 includes a one-year subscription to The Florida Review.

You can find further guidelines and submit your work on our Submittable page.

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Announcing the Winner of the Editor’s Prize for Poetry

Congratulations to Caleb A.P. Parker, our 2023 winner for the Editor’s Prize in Poetry! His poem, “Palinode,” will be available to read in our Spring 2024 issue.

Caleb A.P. Parker, a writer and musician from the industrialized Gulf Coast of Texas, was raised by two Episcopal priests. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, Ninth Letter, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and currently lives in New York City.

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Announcing the Winner of the Editor’s Prize for Creative Nonfiction

Congratulations to Faith Shearin, our 2023 winner for the Editor’s Prize in Creative Nonfiction! Her essay, “Going Home,” will be available to read in our Spring 2024 issue.

Faith Shearin’s seven books of poetry include: The Owl Question (May Swenson Award), Telling the Bees (SFA University Press), Orpheus, Turning (Dogfish Poetry Prize), Darwin’s Daughter (SFA University Press), and Lost Language (Press 53). Her poems have been read aloud on The Writer’s Almanac and included in American Life in Poetry. She has received awards from Yaddo, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her essays and short stories have won awards from New Ohio Review, The Missouri Review, and Literal Latte, among others. Two YA novels — Lost River, 1918 and My Sister Lives in the Sea — won The Global Fiction Prize, judged by Anthony McGowan, and have been published by Leapfrog Press.

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Announcing the Winner of the Editor’s Prize for Fiction

Congratulations to Hannah Thurman, our 2023 winner for the Editor’s Prize in Fiction! Her story, “Beautiful F-ing Problems,” will be available to read in The Florida Review‘s Spring 2024 edition.

Hannah is a Brooklyn-based writer originally from Raleigh, NC whose short stories have been published or are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Southern Indiana Review, Meridian, and others. She received a Pushcart Prize nomination for her short story “A Snowball’s Chance” in 2016 and since then has been chosen for conferences/residencies at Bread Loaf, Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, and Yaddo. She lives at: https://www.hannahpenrosethurman.com/

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Welcoming Our New Poetry and Fiction Editors!

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We are thrilled to welcome to our new Poetry and Fiction Editors! Read more about them and their work below.

Rochelle Hurt (Poetry Editor) is a poet and essayist. She is the author of three poetry collections: The J Girls: A Reality Show (Indiana University Press, 2022), which won the Blue Light Books Prize from Indiana Review; In Which I Play the Runaway (Barrow Street, 2016), which won the Barrow Street Poetry Prize; and The Rusted City: A Novel in Poems (White Pine, 2014). Her work has been included in Poetry magazine and the Best New Poets anthology. She’s been awarded prizes and fellowships from Arts & Letters, Poetry International, Vermont Studio Center, and Yaddo. Originally from the Ohio Rust Belt, Hurt now lives in Orlando and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Central Florida.

Brandon Amico (Poetry Editor) is the author of a collection of poetry, Disappearing, Inc (Gold Wake Press, 2019), and the recipient of a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. His poetry can be found in journals and anthologies including The Best American Poetry 2020, The Adroit Journal, Blackbird, Booth, Copper Nickel, The Cincinnati Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New South, Slice, and Waxwing.

Blake Sanz (Fiction Editor) is the author of The Boundaries of Their Dwelling, a collection of short stories that won the 2021 Iowa Short Fiction Award. His short fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, Joyland, Ecotone, Puerto del Sol, and other literary magazines. He and his writing have been featured in Poets & Writers, Electric Literature, and other national forums. Originally from Louisiana, he teaches fiction at the University of Central Florida.

Submissions to our 2023 Editor’s Prizes in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction are now open! The winner in each genre will receive $1,000 and publication in the Review. All entries are considered for publication, and all entrants receive a complimentary one-year subscription to the journal, as well as the option to purchase an additional discounted subscription. We thank you for your support of The Florida Review, and look forward to reading your work.

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